ALP 2.5 Prevalence of disorders
One of the great questions of abnormal psychology is why we see an increase or decrease in the level of a disorder. There is also the question of why some groups seem to have a higher prevalence of disorder than other groups. Finally, there is the question of the "globalization" of the Western model of mental illness. As we saw in the lesson on sociocultural factors in depression, the marketing of antidepressants may...